Before the mountains were brought forth,
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Psalm 90:2 ESV
From everlasting to everlasting, our God IS.
Supplies used:Faber and Castell Gel Sticks| ESV Journaling Bible (Other journaling Bible options include KJV and [More...]

I know there are lots of articles out there about pregnancy loss, but I think an early pregnancy loss is different in some ways than others. Not to say one is worse than the other, but that the emotions are just different. Also, I think the view that society seems to have on early loss is different. I didn't ever see the baby on [More...]

Our week got off to a rocky start.
On Monday morning my older two children (ages 5.5 and 6.5) were playing nicely upstairs. My daughter came down briefly to get her knitting bag and I thought they must be knitting up there.
I know..silly assumptions.
About 15 minutes later they came downstairs, and I saw this.
"You cut your [More...]

Have you ever noticed that if you get together with a group of moms, it's not an uncommon thing for them to start chatting about all of the negative things about having kids.
How little sleep we get. (and yes, I've been guilty of this one)
How we moms never get self time.
How much mess they make.
How long it's been since we [More...]

I recently read this blog post written by a mom of 3 little ones, who is also a clinical psychologist.
To sum up the article, Samantha (the mom) writes that she struggles with the toddler stage. She doesn't enjoy it and she realizes that she tends to not handle it in the best way.
Believe me, I get it, Samantha! I have 4 little ones; my [More...]

I've been taking the kids on fairly frequent nature walks so that they can become more familiar with, well, nature. The birds and bugs and plants. To become more observant. But I've been learning myself that there are a lot of life lessons to be learned on these walks as well.
Lesson 1: Obedience. If mom says to stay off the parking lot, is [More...]

When my husband and I were newly married my mother-in-law gave us her old table set. It was nice, a dark wood table with 2 leaves and 4 chairs to go with it. Over time, however, we realized that it wasn't holding up to our growing family. It was fine size-wise but the chairs got all stained (they had fabric covers on the seats) and the varnish on [More...]